Object Type: Folder
In root of archive
Photographs and slides collected or taken by Barre Toelken from 1954 to 2002, including pictures of cemeteries, Native American customs (mostly Navajo), folk art, vernacular architecture, and customs of Austria, Germany, Japan, United States, and topical images.
This collection hosts the products from the Bear River Heritage Area Historic Barn Survey that works to tell the story of the historic barns in northern Utah and southeastern Idaho through interviews, photographs, and fieldnotes. Criteria for documented barns included an age of fifty-years-old and older, those in good condition, and barns with easy access for public viewing. The project goals included documenting the barn builders; describing the historic uses of the barns; educating the public about the barns' architectural features; cultural uses; and symbols. To this end, two separate, self-guided tours explore the types of barns and history, as well as the methods of construction for the documented local barns. Additionally, educational exhibits and talks also resulted from the work, as well as actual restoration work on several of the Utah barns and educational workshops for the public to learn restoration techniques.
This collection houses products from the Beaver Mountain Oral History Project, which includes oral history interviews and photographs from Beaver Mountain volunteer ski patrol, employees, owners, and guests. Also included are photographs of buildings such as the lodge, lifts, the ski patrol building, various outbuildings, and other locations pertaining to Beaver Mountain.
Drug courts are problem-solving courts; the first was established in Florida in 1989. Judge Thomas Willmore founded the Cache Valley Drug Court in 2000. The Cache Valley Drug Court Oral History Project was the idea of Andrew Dupree, drug court participant, now graduate, and was shaped by his vision to collect the voices of drug court participants and graduates, family members, and professionals associated with this court. This born-digital collection was created December 2016 to May 2017 and includes 26 interviews (audio, transcripts, and release forms) with 28 people who are identified by first name only.
Cache Valley, Utah is the home of Burmese Muslim, Karen, and Eritrean refugees. Documenting and preserving their stories is an important goal of Utah State University’s Fife Folklore Archives (FFA). In May 2015, USU’s FFA and Folklore Program, with help from the Karen community, hosted a Library of Congress Field School for Cultural Documentation: “Voices: Refugees in Cache Valley.” Field school students worked to document Cache Valley’s recent refugee communities. This collection, Folk Coll 58: Cache Valley Refugee Oral History Project, houses the physical recordings, release forms, and associated materials of the interviews which took place during this field school.
In this digital collection of 71 interviews (with 74 people), stakeholders from the Central Utah Water Conservancy District, Central Utah Project Completion Act, the Bureau of Reclamation and the Ute Nation, join with Utah water users, members of the environmental community and Utah's political establishment to tell the complex and oftentimes controversial story of the Central Utah Project.
The Climate Challenge digital collection is a small but important oral history effort that presents 19 voices of Utah State University climate scientists (2018), Northern Utah and Northern Idaho climate activists (2021), and people engaged in land restoration efforts in the Intermountain West. The goal of the effort is to document the experiences of these three groups to add to the growing scholarship about the human side of climate scholarship, awareness, and land restoration efforts.
Folklore material relating to the yearly Fife Folklore Conference, including correspondence, monetary budgets, notes, conference schedules, student requirements, student collections, brochures, posters, flyers, slides, photographs, audio tapes, video tapes, etc. (approx. 1963 to present)
FolkBistro is a series of podcasts exploring folklore topics. These engaging, short recordings feature interviews with visiting scholars as well as selections from the Fife Folklore Archives and folklore pedagogy. FolkBistro is a production of Utah State University’s Merrill-Cazier Library in partnership with the USU Folklore Program. While the core of FolkBistro consists of USU Libraries-produced podcasts, the series will also include selected student-produced podcasts submitted as partial requirments for folklore courses.
In the Spring of 2019, Utah State University students from the English 6720 Oral History and Fieldwork class interviewed eight professionals about their connections to the food culture of Cache Valley. The interviewees shared stories of their families, traditions, and professional lives. Taken together, their words offer a beautiful illustration of the nuanced and complex ways that food sharing nourishes us all.
Oral history interviews of individuals in the Salt Lake City and Cache Valley LGBTQ+ communities.
This collection houses the products from the 2017 Library of Congress/Utah State Univeristy/University of Wyoming Field School for Cultural Documentation at the historic Triangle X fieldwork in the Grand Teton National Park. The collection includes 26 interviews (audio, full transcripts, release forms, and images) with members of the Turner family (third, fourth, and fifth generations), Triangle X employees, and dude ranch guests. Also included are photographs from events and buildings at the ranch.
Jay Anderson is a professor of History at Utah State University. Professor Anderson donated his vast cookbook and foodways collection, collected over a lifetime of research and specialization on foodways, to USU Libraries Fife Folklore Archives for student research. The collection includes international and domestic books on foodways.
